Gentlemen.
Big round numbers, but total allowances bill £880 million.
CEA (left alone to all intents and purposes) £280 million.
Cuts of 250 from remaining 600 million = a reduction of over 41%.
Easy to see that most of us are even worse off than we thought. In my chain of command, overseas, only the single SACs win on loa...... By 25p a day.
It is not just the senior people, who can maybe afford it, being hit by this. I'm okay, I can cover it. You tell a sgt with a couple of kids who made an informed financial decision to take a job that he is now over £300 net out of pocket per month, or cpl with 3 kids £250 per month, that he must just get on with it. These are big sums to our lesser paid blokes and we are meant to look after them.
But we can't do a thing. These 'allowances' aren't an extravagance, they are a necessity. Call the money what you will, this is another pay cut.
Yours in hopeless emasculation,
Scuttled (appropriate name huh?)